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The reality of commuting in Chicago(and probably most big cities) is there are going to be days when commuters are delayed and it doesn't matter what form of transportation one uses. The dispatcher strike(1-1.5 hour delays) got a lot of attention here, but the very next day I-55 was shut down for 5 hours due to a massive 5 truck pileup. I also remember the day when a crane fell through an overpass and blocked the outbound Eisenhower X-way completely for 12 hours. We've also had a number of rail mishaps, strikes, and management lockouts - most notably a time when ALL the commuter railroads shut down for 3 days and folks downtown were parking cars on draw-bridges. The great loop flood even impacted commuters who live and work downtown and walk to work, since many buildings were without power. These were all man-made delays, weather is a whole other story. <br /> <br />It's true that 99+% of the time, one can literaly set their watch based on how the tains run on the BNSF Q-line - that may be why commuters get so upset when things do go wrong. On the other hand they should remember that it's those same dispatchers who are in part responsible for that on-time performance record.
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